naturephoto1
Offline
• • • • • •
Upload & Sell: Off
|
 p.7 #9 · Photo Equipment for a month long? trip to Italy | |
mrott wrote:
I haven’t read everything, but this has been interesting. What grabbed my attention, is you state that because of wrist injuries, you will be mostly, if not fully, working off a support, tripod or monopod.
I am trying to get a mental picture. Is it accurate to say that your photography is slow and deliberate? Do you take a lot of photos in a day or just a few? Do you pack and unpack you camera/tripod for each photo? Or wander around with tripod/camera over your shoulder most of the day?
If shooting primarily from a tripod, is there an advantage to carrying 2 bodies?
As others have mentioned, some places won’t allow tripods or you might find that you can’t place a tripod exactly where you would like. For this reason alone, I would go with a zoom to more easily get the desired framing if restricted by where you can place your support.
If it were me, I would take a zoom that covers 90% of my needs. Have lens/camera on tripod/monopod, over shoulder ready to go, with a small bag with 1-2 favourite primes and accessories. Unless you really like shooting razor thin depth of field, the slower lenses should fine off a support and I would be more tempted to go with smaller, lighter lenses and save my back....Show more →
I can hold a camera with my hands even having broken both wrists. But, my hands are not quite as steady as prior to the accident and I normally can not hold things as long as before. Also, the Doctor's reset my left wrist off from the norm (as I recall off about 8 degrees) because they were unsure if I would regain total motion and mobility of my right wrist.
Part of the reason for using 2 cameras is that my WA M-mount lenses perform better on my Kolari Vision Ultra Thin Sensor modified A7rII than they do on a stock Sony body. These lenses perform better into the edges and corners than stock cameras. The second body will be used for the purposes of using longer lenses, normally 50mm and longer as well as my zoom lens.
I normally prefer to use smaller and lighter very sharp Prime lenses than zoom lenses. The exceptions being my Leica M WATE and longer focal length zooms. I will work either way as to keeping one lens and camera out and or in a separate pouch. But, I most often pack things and set up my tripod and now with the new option with the support attached to the monopod. Occasionally I will have my tripod over my shoulder but not usually with a camera or lens attached. I set-up as I see a subject and will then frequently work somewhat carefully for composition. I can take hundreds of photos per day, but that includes bracketing. When photographing birds however I can approach 800 to 1000 photos per day with my zoom lenses, but I am not traveling to Italy for purpose of bird or wildlife photography.
With the exception of the Leica R 80-200mm f4 Vario-Elmar lens, the other lenses are small, particularly the Voigtlander 28mm f2 Ultron II VM and the Voitlander 90mm f2.8 Apo-Skopar VM.
I am still waiting for the delivery of my Voigtlander 90mm f2.8 Apo-Skopar lens, but the 2 camera bodies with L brackets and neck straps; Leica M WATE with adapter, filter, filter adapter, and front cap; Voigtander 28mm f2 Ultron II VM with adapter, filter, hood and front cap; Voigtander 50mm f2 Apo-Lanthar Asph, FE mount with filter, hood, and front cap; and the Voigtlander 90mm f2.8 Apo-Skopar VM with adapter, filter, hood, and front cap should weigh a little over 7 pounds. The Leica zoom is not expected to be carried most of the time.
In Italy, I am not sure quite how I will shoot, but I anticipate having the monopod out much of the time and one of the camera in my pouch around my waist or chest or in my hands.
Rich
Edited on Dec 01, 2021 at 06:24 PM · View previous versions
|
zz wrote: